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A two-day International Conference on “Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Africa: Management Strategies and Practices for Sustainable Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Sustainability and Entrepreneurship has ended in Enugu with a call for collaboration among stakeholders to address peculiar challenges facing Africa. The conference was organized by the faculty of Management Sciences, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, and held at the Peter Mbah auditorium, ESUT, Agbani. Declaring the conference open, ESUT Vice-Chancellor Professor Aloysius Okolie, who was represented by the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Professor Chike Nwoha said the conference is the first of its kind in the…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu Rights activist, and Director, Abuja School of Social and Political Thoughts, Dr Sam Amadi, has said that the Governors of South-East geopolitical zone are not keen to fight the human rights violations of citizens of the region. Amadi said this while featuring as guest speaker at the monthly Ikengaonline Town-Hall meeting for June 2025 with the topic: “South-East Governors, JAMB and Tertiary Education in Igboland.” Amadi said that most of the governors were not home-grown hence they were far-connected with the people and lacked social accountability. “There is this historical tendency by governors of the South-East not…
Ugo Nosiri, Owerri The National Judicial Council (NJC), chaired by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, has sanctioned the compulsory retirement of 11 judges, with 9 of them from the Imo State Judiciary. In a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja, Kemi Ogedengbe, the NJC Deputy Director of Information, revealed that the decision was reached during the council’s 109th meeting on June 25, 2025. According to a statement, the nine affected judges from Imo State were found to have altered the dates of birth in their official records to confer on themselves the undue advantage of staying longer…
…Seek FG’s emergency intervention Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia The House of Representatives, Thursday, declared Ideato North, and South Federal Constituency of Imo State as an erosion and road disaster zone, calling for urgent intervention from the Federal Government and relevant agencies to save the federal constituency from total collapse. This is sequel to a motion by the lawmaker representing the federal constituency in the green chamber, Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere, drawing the attention of the Federal Government to devastating erosion menace in the area. The motion titled: “Call for Intervention to Address the Gully Erosion and road disaster in Ideato North/South Federal…
By Azu Ishiekwene The proper thing to do when readers respond to a newspaper article is to respect their right of reply. There were two irate responses to my article last week, “Not the Iran We Thought It Was: What Has Changed in the Persian Gulf.” One, entitled “Not the Azu We Thought He Was,” by Yakubu Musa, a guest author for 21st Century Chronicle, an online newspaper, and the other, “Basking in the Euphoria of Narrative Origami,” by Mahfuz Mundadu, a friend of one Hassan Karofi, who claimed he is a journalist. Both articles could have been from the…
Ben Ezechime, Enugu The membership hemorrhage affliction of the Labour Party (LP), seems to know no end as the party has yet again lost another member of the House of Representatives thus making it two in just one week. After the member representing Enugu East/Isi Uzo Federal Constituency, Professor Paul Nnamchi on Tuesday announced his cross carpeting to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on the floor of the house, the member representing Enugu North and South Federal Constituency, Honourable Chimaobi Atu has dumped the party for the ruling APC. Just like Nnamchi, Atu announced his cross carpeting in a…
…As area councils strike enters 3rd month Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki Peter Obi, a former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has decried the prolonged ongoing teacher’s strike in Abuja over the non-implementatiom of the N70,000 monthly minimum wage. Obi in a statement on his X handle on Thursday, stated that education is the most critical component of human development. He emphasised that the progress of a country is closely dependent on the education of its people. “It is a known and verifiable study that the more educated a nation is, the more developed it is. Consequently, the most important investment…
Ike Nnachi, Abakaliki The Ebonyi State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it recorded a total seizure of 91.768kg of cannabis sativa and psychotropic substances from January to date. The state Commander, Mr Okechukwu Nkere, disclosed this in Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi State to commemorate the 2025 United Nations Day against Drug Abuse and Trafficking. Nkere said that the 2025 celebration, tagged “The Evidence is Clear; Invest in Prevention,” was to advocate, educate and enlighten members of the society to resist the pressure of succumbing to abuse of drugs and illicit substances. “The Command also arrested…
By Monday Onyekachi Ubani About six years ago, my client, a UK-based Nigerian widow became the target of an audacious scheme orchestrated by a notorious syndicate of land grabbers operating under the guise of a land owning family in Lagos. Their objective was clear: to dispossess her of her rightful ownership of three plots of land situated behind the former Tasty Fried Chicken building on Opebi Road, Ikeja. In a disturbing abuse of judicial process, these individuals approached a Magistrate Court then at Ikeja Local Airport, and by misrepresentation and fraudulent manipulation, secured a writ of possession against my client.…
…Sam Amadi to speak on ‘S’East govs, JAMB and tertiary education in Igboland Our Reporter, Abuja, with Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia After nearly six months, the famous Ikengaonline townhall returns today, Thursday, June 26, with the Director, Abuja School of Social and Political Thoughts, Dr Sam Amadi, as guest speaker. The former Chairman/CEO, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), will speak on the theme: “South-East Governors, JAMB and Tertiary Education in Igboland.” This is contained in a statement by the Editor-in-Chief of the South-East focused accountability on-line media platform, Uche Ugboajah. The explosive monthly meeting scheduled for 7:00 pm (WAT), will be…